Education Events

Autumn Children’s Rights School Train Young People in Active Citizenship

25 September 2016

From 16 to 21 September Children’s Rights School gathered together 20 youths to train them in children’s and youth participation and active citizenship.

The camp was organized by National Network for Children (NNC) with support of the Youth Network ‘Megaphone’.

The event took place within six days in Uzana, Gabrovo, and brought together 20 youths and 10 adults which are professionals in the NNC member organizations across the country.

A team of facilitators trained youth participants in deeper understanding of their rights – what they mean, how to exercise them, when the rights are violated. One of the essential topics that was discussed was how freedom of opinion results in the right to participate.

The human and children’s rights topic was presented in a simple and easy to understand way including interactive sessions that allowed participants to show their creative thinking, team spirit, personal experience and knowledge.

Autumn Children’s Rights School launched a new program “Children and youth participation” of National Network for Children, which covers a two-year period. The newly formed working teams have already started work on their chosen topics, activities and support of NNC’s initiatives.

The next step is a ‘Spring meeting’ when young people and adult professionals will gather again to share how far they have come, to plan their next activities and to discuss and act as a real alumni.

The Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign aims to support national efforts to develop child protection systems that strengthen families and ensure high-quality family and community-based alternative care for children, by leveraging EU funding and policy and building capacity in civil society.

Help us to build the House for Children. It will be a new, modern, contemporary House for Children from across the country. A place for events and training center for development of skills that will be needed TOMORROW in order our children to be successful people and leaders.

The National Network for Children founded the Golden Apple Awards to distinguish the contribution of public figures, ordinary people and organization, working to improve Bulgarian children live and welfare.

The child participation guarantees children rights and suppose that children not only share their opinions freely, but also they are active participants in community and social processes, related to child-adult bonding, to acquire communication competence and to empower children.

Following the best practices in Iceland, the project aims to pilot comprehensive program of care in 3 countries – Bulgaria, Portugal, Cyprus in direction of recognition and empowerment of children and their parents and authorities leaving out the position of inert following the pattern of violence and initiate a process of self-awareness of personal own value of the youngest members of our society.

The foster care is an opportunity for children, deprived of own parents care to grow up in a family environment, to establish an emotional bond with the foster parents, to adopt social behavior models and to develop their potential to live independently.